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Plan 9 Boot Camp Tea Note Presentation — Notes

Notes from TEA NOTE #N Sunday August 22, 2021.

Replace USER with your user name.

% cat popmail
#!/bin/rc
upas/fs -f /pop/mx.sdf.org/USER@9p.sdf.org

note from hc9:

[% man upas]
[There is no man page for upas.]
[% cd /bin/upas]
[% lc fs]
[% cat fs]
[press the Del key]
[% ls -l]
[The script can use /bin/upas/fs]

% popmail

!Adding key: dom=mx.sdf.org proto=pass service=pop user=USER@9p.sdf.org
password:

x	Oops, there is the possibility of entering the incorrect password.
x	Please repair that incorrect password to continue.

An “incorrect password” repair is:

% cat /mnt/factotum/ctl
key proto=pass dom=mx.sdf.org service=pop user=USER@9p.sdf.org user=USER !password?

% echo 'delkey proto=pass dom=mx.sdf.org service=pop user=USER@9p.sdf.org' >/mnt/factotum/ctl
% popmail

!Adding key: dom=mx.sdf.org proto=pass service=pop user=USER@9p.sdf.org
password:
!
%

Use/type 'fmt' in/into the Acme panel menu (the 3rd menu) to format an email message.

note from hc9:

Acme hint: there can be three (stacked) menus (from the top down).
1st for Acme
2nd for the column
3rd for the panel

Adding a face

% acme /lib/face/people/.dict

x

Adding your face

https://9p.io/wiki/plan9/adding_your_face/index.html

jpg -c myface.jpg  | iconv -c m8 | resample -x 48 -y 48 >myface.1

This is a people face:

% jpg -c USER.jpg  | resample -x 100 | crop -b 255 255 255 -i -30 | mug >/lib/face/people/USER.1

This is a domains face:

% jpg -c sdf.jpg  | resample -x 100 | crop -b 255 255 255 -i -30 | mug >/lib/face/domains/sdf.org.1

End Note from hc9:

Sourcehut was mentioned:
 
sourcehut
~ft/hj264
hj264
H.264 encoder for Plan 9.
https://git.sr.ht/~ft/hj264
 
There is a wiki playground tutorial that mentions IMAP.
 
Receiving and sending emails with 9front
https://wiki.sdf.org/doku.php?id=playground:email_with_9front